Citizens Meet To Discuss Sludge

August 05, 2005

ISLE OF WIGHT — County residents will meet with state Sen. Fred Quayle on Aug. 24 to ask him to help change state law to give counties more control over sewage sludge that farmers want to spread on their land.

The Isle of Wight Citizen Association will also hold a meeting on the sludge issue at 7 p.m. Monday at the Carrollton Library, 14362 New Towne Haven Lane. MacFarland Neblett, the Isle of Wight resident engineer with the Virginia Department of Transportation, will be there to address concerns about whether the county's roads and bridges can handle the increased traffic from trucks hauling the sludge.